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"Apart from the education it affords to those children who are
blind within the meaning of the Act, the system of teaching
continues to justify itself in the striking manner in which the
progress of disease in the high myope class is arrested. The
parents now co-operate admirably with the teachers for the
attainment of this end by careful supervision at home and the
limitation of reading outside school hours.
As usual during the year a number of cases from the school
and the ordinary weekly refraction clinics, have been admitted
to the Western Ophthalmic Hospital for operative treatment
where such was deemed advisable."
Miss M. L. Balls, the Head Teacher, has kindly sent the
following report: —
It will be readily understood that great care is required in
arranging instruction suitable to the capacity of children of varying
ages, handicapped by various forms of Eye disease.
The children are divided into two groups:—
1. Partially sighted.
2. Those ' Blind within the meaning of the Act.'
"The partially blind children use their eyes while doing their
work, great care being taken that the eyes are in no way subjected
to strain. Special reading books printed in letters measuring one
inch are read; writing is performed on blackboards with white
chalk; arithmetic is written down in the same manner, and the
work is done as far as possible in an upright position (frames are